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Internationally renowned curators are invited to program the Azores Video Art Screenings. They design exclusive session for FUSO INSULAR and present a selection of works by Portuguese and foreign artists. The screenings are preceded by a conversation with the curator, in order to enrich the audience’s knowledge.
The Moving Image Laboratory, FUSO INSULAR’s Creative Residency Programme, invites artists with extensive experience in the field of the moving image, who are responsible for the theoretical training and practical tutoring of the participants.
Pascale Cassagnau has a PhD in Art History, and is an art critic. Since 2008 she has been responsible for the audiovisual and new media collections at the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (National Center for Visual Arts) of the French Ministry of Culture. Her research focuses on new cinematographic practices and their cross-dialogue with contemporary creation. She published, among others : Enquêtes sur le troisième cinéma (Ed. Isthmes), Un Pays Supplémentaire (Ed., École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris), about the role of contemporary creation in the architecture of the media. Intempestif. Indépendant, fragile. Marguerite Duras et le cinéma d’art contemporain, was published by Presses du Réel (2012). She is also the author of essays on Apichatpong Weerasethekul, Peter Handke, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Chantal Akerman, and Alexander Kluge.
Diagramme Monteiro, an essay about the filmmaker João César Monteiro, written in collaboration with Hugues De Cointet, is to be published in 2023, as well as Stratégies obliques, a dictionary on Bertrand Bonello.
Jean-François Chougnet (France) is the artistic Diretor of FUSO and has dedicated his career to cultural policies. He was Managing Diretor of Villette, Paris (2001-2006). In 2005, he was the General Commissioner of the Year of Brazil in France. He directed the Berardo Foundation in Lisbon from 2007 to 2011. In 2011, Jean-François Chougnet became CEO of Marseille-Provence Capital of European Culture 2013. From 2014 to 2022 he was president of the Musée des Civilizations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (Mucem), in Marseille, France.
Jean-François Chougnet is a curator and consultant on museum projects.
André Laranjinha (b. 1977) lives and works in São Miguel. He has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Lisbon and works in cinema, video, visual arts, graphic arts and illustration. He is co-founder of Alice ’s House atelier, together with graphic designer Júlia Garcia.</p><p>Among his films are: Wine (2018); Stone Walls (2017); Clarissas (2016); Bread (2014); Slaughter (2011); Negro Island (2010); Nature and Ingeniousness (2009) and Pilgrimages from São Miguel (2009).
Isabel Nogueira (b. 1974) holds a PhD in Fine Arts, specialization in Art Sciences (University of Lisbon) and a post-doctorate in History and Theory of Contemporary Art and Image Theory (Université Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne). She is a contemporary art historian and critic, teacher and essayist. She is a professor at the National Society of Fine Arts, integrated researcher at CIEBA / Faculty of Fine Arts / University of Lisbon, member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). She is an art critic for the magazine Contemporânea and a contributor to the magazine Recherches en Esthétique. She is editor/director of the academic journal Arte e Cultura Visual (CIEBA / Faculty of Fine Arts / University of Lisbon). Recent books: Theories of art: from modernism to the present (BookBuilders, 2019, 2nd ed. 2020); Zona de Rebentação (BookBuilders, 2020); How can ‘this’ be art? Brief essay on art criticism and judgment of taste (Húmus, 2020); History of art in Portugal: from Marcelismo to the end of the 20th century (BookBuilders, 2021); Art Criticism or the Space Between the Work and the World: Chosen Criticism (Húmus, 2021); Histoire de l’art au Portugal, 1968-2000 (Éditions de l’Harmattan, 2022).
Daniel Blaufuks uses mainly photography and video, presenting his work through books, installations and films. He has a predilection for issues such as the connection between time and space and the intersection between private and public memory.
Pascale Cassagnau
Pascale Cassagnau has a PhD in Art History, and is an art critic. Since 2008 she has been responsible for the audiovisual and new media collections at the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (National Center for Visual Arts) of the French Ministry of Culture. Her research focuses on new cinematographic practices and their cross-dialogue with contemporary creation. She published, among others : Enquêtes sur le troisième cinéma (Ed. Isthmes), Un Pays Supplémentaire (Ed., École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris), about the role of contemporary creation in the architecture of the media. Intempestif. Indépendant, fragile. Marguerite Duras et le cinéma d’art contemporain, was published by Presses du Réel (2012). She is also the author of essays on Apichatpong Weerasethekul, Peter Handke, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Chantal Akerman, and Alexander Kluge.
Diagramme Monteiro, an essay about the filmmaker João César Monteiro, written in collaboration with Hugues De Cointet, is to be published in 2023, as well as Stratégies obliques, a dictionary on Bertrand Bonello.
Jean-François Chougnet
Jean-François Chougnet (France) is the artistic Diretor of FUSO and has dedicated his career to cultural policies. He was Managing Diretor of Villette, Paris (2001-2006). In 2005, he was the General Commissioner of the Year of Brazil in France. He directed the Berardo Foundation in Lisbon from 2007 to 2011. In 2011, Jean-François Chougnet became CEO of Marseille-Provence Capital of European Culture 2013. From 2014 to 2022 he was president of the Musée des Civilizations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (Mucem), in Marseille, France.
Jean-François Chougnet is a curator and consultant on museum projects.
André Laranjinha
André Laranjinha (b. 1977) lives and works in São Miguel. He has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Lisbon and works in cinema, video, visual arts, graphic arts and illustration. He is co-founder of Alice ’s House atelier, together with graphic designer Júlia Garcia.</p><p>Among his films are: Wine (2018); Stone Walls (2017); Clarissas (2016); Bread (2014); Slaughter (2011); Negro Island (2010); Nature and Ingeniousness (2009) and Pilgrimages from São Miguel (2009).
Isabel Nogueira
Isabel Nogueira (b. 1974) holds a PhD in Fine Arts, specialization in Art Sciences (University of Lisbon) and a post-doctorate in History and Theory of Contemporary Art and Image Theory (Université Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne). She is a contemporary art historian and critic, teacher and essayist. She is a professor at the National Society of Fine Arts, integrated researcher at CIEBA / Faculty of Fine Arts / University of Lisbon, member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). She is an art critic for the magazine Contemporânea and a contributor to the magazine Recherches en Esthétique. She is editor/director of the academic journal Arte e Cultura Visual (CIEBA / Faculty of Fine Arts / University of Lisbon). Recent books: Theories of art: from modernism to the present (BookBuilders, 2019, 2nd ed. 2020); Zona de Rebentação (BookBuilders, 2020); How can ‘this’ be art? Brief essay on art criticism and judgment of taste (Húmus, 2020); History of art in Portugal: from Marcelismo to the end of the 20th century (BookBuilders, 2021); Art Criticism or the Space Between the Work and the World: Chosen Criticism (Húmus, 2021); Histoire de l’art au Portugal, 1968-2000 (Éditions de l’Harmattan, 2022).
Daniel Blaufuks
Daniel Blaufuks uses mainly photography and video, presenting his work through books, installations and films. He has a predilection for issues such as the connection between time and space and the intersection between private and public memory.
